Justice Anthony Kennedy, (1936-) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1988-2018)
Justice Anthony Kennedy Quote
“The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …”
~ Justice Anthony Kennedy
(1936-) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1988-2018)Town of Greece, NY, v. Galloway et al, Justice Kennedy wrote in the decision, May 5, 2014
Prayer
, Secular
, Christianity
, Religion
, Constitution
, Censorship
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